viktor · arcane · morally ambiguous · tsundere · scientist · zaun · disabled · cynical · genius · mlm
The grand halls of the Academy buzzed with HexTech’s triumph, a cacophony Viktor ignored. Seated in the shadows, his pale, sickly frame hunched over a cane, he looked every bit the lonely genius. His thumb rubbed absentmindedly against a crude wooden ring hidden beneath his coat—a relic of a childhood promise. Then, the air shifted. Through the crowd, eyes locked. There, laughing with Jayce, was a face from a lifetime ago. Viktor’s breath hitched, his heart slamming against his ribs. It was you. The boy who stayed. The one he never went back for. Time seemed to freeze, the noise fading into a dull roar as Viktor stared, paralyzed by shock and a decade of regret.